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Churchmen Discuss Spiritualism
"Involves Serious Error' Bishops Believe
NEED FOR GREAT CAUTION
"TOO SOON TO DRAW THE VEIL
OF AFTER LIFE.”
London, July 12. The fires of controversy have risen again amongst the people of England coincerning the rights and wrongs of spiritualism.
The most authoritative pronouncement on the subject by the Church of England was 12 years ago, when 252 bishops issued an
LAMMERT BROS. Encyclical stating that
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"Spiritualism, tried by the doctrines of the Inegrna- tion and the Cross, is clearly shown to involve serious error. Its adherents are drawn into practices and cults which in- jure their spiritual life and endanger their loyalty to Christ,"
contributed his incrsunut views in Dr. Pollock, Bishop of Nerwich,
an article published on Saturday.
To-day we present the views of two leading Nonconformist divines...
Emphasis, therefore, on mere sur-
NOULENS TRIAL TO
BE RESUMED.
Both Recovered From
Strike."
Nanking, Yesterday..
It was officially announced to-day that the trial of Drand Mrs. Paul Noulens will be resumed on the morning of August 4.
The Noulens are facing charges of being implicated in Communis tie activities. Their trial was be gun at Nanking last month, when they asked that the case be heard fin Shanghai. The request was re- fused, and in protest, they refused to answer questions and went on a hunger strike from which they both collapsed and had to be taken to hospital. They have now re-
covered. Reuter.
ADMIRAL NOMURA ALMOST WELL.
Lost Eye In Bomb Outrage.
TUESDAY, AUGUST
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Tokyo, Yesterday. Admiral Nomura, who lost an fellowship with Him. fulfilment, in union with God and in feye in the Hongkew Park bombing This is outrage in Shanghai on April 29, Eternal Life as set forth in the has now left hospital after lengthy New Testament
treatment.
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without some time getting run-down. For this reason there has always been
Dr. J. Scott Lidgett, former Modera-vival may, and often does, deflect tor of the Federal Council of the the outlook of spiritualists from the Evangelical Free Churches, and highest spiritual ends of Christian Mr. Alfred Ellis, president of "the faith. Baptist Union of Great Britain and ireland.
Now, Dr. J. Scott Lidgett, former Moderator Evangelical Pree Churches, says: --
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Mr. Alfred Kits, President of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland, writes: "The loneliness
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"In the consideration of this subject, the first question that
LOST AMERICAN CIVILISATION.
Key Sought Among Yucatan Ruins.
GREAT AS EGYPT.
At the rear of the Flying Scotsman was attached a stand ard East Coast brake-van which had been equipped as a wireless receiving and transmitting sta- tion with the call signal G & FL. For the experiment there was installed a Marconi set, of the Los Angeles, July 20.
standard type used in aircraft, working on a wavelength of 520 rivalling metres.
Ancient Culture · Of Maya Revealed.
arises is whether there are such New clues to the fate of a lost
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Yucatan.
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Mr. M. Salleh, of Pulau Kemiri, Salak North, F.MS. recently wrote: "I
"I cannot claim to speak for the that has been bereft of one Free Churches as a whole in re-that was the joy and gard to Spiritualism. I have no life., is unutterable.
light The Ruch official position as would en-break seems su absolutely complete, title me to do" 80, nor have the awful silence, that falls la so any findings 011 the subject terrible, that one can but
write heen úrrived, n either by with tengler sympathy concerning representative conferences, which those who in auch an hour seek can be treated as expressing comfort by getting into touch in ja common mind on the subject. the spirit world, as they believe,
"As is the case, I believe. with with those they have lost, the Anglican Church, the subject is under observation, and very vary ing opinions can be collected in regard to it. Fean therefore only things as spirit manifestations, or Egypt's in glory will be sought express my own view, though imagine that in giving it I am re- ginning to end is, trickery and de- Calakmul, Maya city just found in O. P. Jones, took off from Croy-malarial fever for a period of three whether the whole thing from be among the jungle covered ruins of The Heracles, piloted by Capt. was weak and run-down and subject to
Reception Quite Clear. ·-- presenting the mind of the majority ception." of thoughtful people among the "For Free Churches.
part (these
don at an hour after the "Flying rears. Slight exertion exhausted me views are my own and must Sculptured on overturned monu Scotsman" left King's Cross, and I had pains in my legs. "It would be extremely rash to not be
Ap- regarded as A deny the reality of many "psychic"nouncement
of the are dates and other records that was identifiable by its name miseries. But when I started using temples and overtook the train, which petite, was bad but I had abnormal thirst Sleeplessness also added to my phenomena, for the evidence is Baptist Union) I am convinc may reveal the story of the rise and painted on its roof, shortly be Dr. Williams Pink Pills my health overwhelming. Nor can the Chris-ed from the evidence which is forth gourished in Central America be-
fall of the Mays Empire, which fore reaching Grantham. tian Churches deny the possibility coming that although there has fore the Spaniards came.
gradually returned. Much to my relief of communication from the Unseen been much trickery, there can be,
Wireless communication, was my malarial attacks, ceased troubling many statements contained in the tween living persons and the spirit pedition of the Carnegie Institution and headphones those in the Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have done for World without contradicting a good and there are, communications be- Calakmul, just visited by an ex- the aid of both a loud-speaker rufficiently express my thanks for what promptly established, and with me, strength and appetite returned and
I was able to sleep soundly. I cannot New Testament that such com-world.
under Dr. Sylvanus Morley, is the train were able to call and con- me." munications have taken place.
latest of many great Maya cities to verse with acquaintances in the NO NEW THING. ROOM FOR DECEIT
Spiritualism is no new thing. It Yucatan and Guatemala.
Dr. Williami' Pink Pills are obtain- be discovered in the jungles of aircraft while travelling at full able from chemists and medicino "Moreover, to assert that such a has his roots in very ancient soil.) barrier exists "between the Unseen References to it are found in the
dealers everywhere. The Maya empire flourished there
speed. World and the terrestrial as can- classics. Its practice was well for 1,500 years, from the time of of aircraft and locomotive noises, In spite of some interference not be over-passed is to accept & known in ancient Egypt and other the birth of Christ until the dis the reception was surprisingly materialistic view which contra- countries. dicts the entire philosophy and Scriptures we read of those who
In the Old Testament covery of America."
clear. witness of the Christian Church. consulted with familiar spirits and In Calakmul archaeologists hope some forty miles, the Heracles "After flying with the train for "The phenomena mast there- necromancers, that is, those who fa- to find why the Mays migrated from left it at Retford. Communica fore he studied without prejudice, quire of the dead..
Guatemala, leaving their magni- tion was, however, maintained "At the same time, as reports show, abundant opportunities exist of a damsel possessed with's spirit and built new cities in Yucatan.
"In the New Testament we read ficent cities abandoned behind them for as long as possible, until it for all kinds of deception and self-of divination, who was exploited Calakmul lies, just over the north- distance.
grew too faint with increasing deception in regard of these phe-by persons for commercial gain. ern Guatemala, border in Mexico, nomena: That this is the case is "To anyone who accepts the Holy midway between the centres of the time, the train had been equip
Owing to the exigencies of udmitted by cautious spiritualists Scriptures as being the revelation old empire, which flourished nearly ped for the test. with a short in- themselves, and in established by of God, there are found again and 1,000 years, and the new empire, to side aerial, which limited the dis much evidence in regard to seances again such words as to set him which the Mayas, migrated between tance and mediums."
pondering profoundly."
600 and 700 A.D.
over which transmission The trade. of Spiritualism
could be effected. Calakmul was a great religious) must be distinguished from
centre, Dr. Morley reports, for it the
Messages At Five Miles. In an article written in 1917 the contains many temples and monu Even so, the results obtained phenomena which The following unclaimed televi Lo be explained grams are lying at the office of in various ways be exploited by
and may late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle said: ments carved with figures of re-were better than had been anti- The Great - Northern. / Telegraph
The same circle may assemble ligious subjects. The site, Fo says, cipated. The train proved cap. unscrupulous practitioners
with the same medium in their of "enormous sizeable of transmitting messages | Company (biriited) of Den-
Anarka
came room under the same physi- Two Maya cities, Uazactum, one up to a distance of nearly five cal conditions to meet with utter of the chief elties in the old empire miles, and for some time after failure upon the Monday and region, and Chichen complete success upon the Tues a city
Itza, the Heracles had suggested that day. Still more embarrassing is are now being excavated, and impossible Reception from the empire, further communication would be the fact that the same medium their inscriptions deciphered by sircraft continued longer, and may upon one day deliver a mes Carnegie, Institution archaeologists was still good when the Heracles MAN'S LIMITATIONS GA "Furthermore, the conditionsly true, and on the next day, or empire, which centred around a wave-length of 900 metres.
sage which proves to be absolute Calakmul,, was a city of the old switched over to its normal under which human life is pass- even in some cases at the same chain of lakes. The Mayas farmed With more powerful apparatus ed suggest that it is not the will
uitting, will deliver another of God that for the present the veil, that hides the life beyond should be drawn aside. Pu
Tho practical interests of hus -The folloving unclaimed tele-man life, and still more the moral grumo, are lying at the Eastern Ex-discipline by which its highest tension Telegraph Co.'s office:- values are achieved, demand that'
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The swamp water, becoming con- communication between trains variations, is, in my opinion, that epidemic of disease that drove the torily carried on at distance up atant, there are conditions, up-gests empre while earthly conditions are con Mayas from the region, they sug to fifty miles. which vary and effect the results. still live in Yucatan, know nothing Been to us upon the other side
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These are strange words to a thinking mind,” says Mr. Ellis,
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